Shortest Takoff in National STOL History
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- čas přidán 23. 08. 2024
- 2022 National STOL Series- Outlaw STOL, Somerton AZThis was our first stop on the Naitonal STOL Series for the 2022 season. For more information on this amazing airplane, please visit us at WildWestAircraft.com
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Gotta love a good headwind! Amazing performance and a great video.
What you have done for stol is incredible!! Amazing job modifying your plane and pilot skill!
Thank you for the nice comment!
The wheels rotated exactly once, nice
Glad you pointed that out, that was so satisfying!
Only noticed after your comment. its less than one full turn!
The production quality of these vids just keeps improving!
I appreciate the comment, I’m really trying to improve quality! Thank you! -Sara
Made me smile. You definitely know how to work that plane. Amazing.
I haven’t totaled up my logbooks in a long time but I’m sure I’ve got to have at least 20,000 landings in these Highlanders. Many times I’ve done 100 of them in a single practice session here at home.
❤️🔥😎Henry’s... the real deal, genuine, humble, honored to have met Steve and Sara. ❤️😎👍
Thank you!
Steve, you have the amazing gift of being able to get off the ground in a hurry. Thanks for sharing your STOL experiences with us. It truly is fun to watch you take off and land. Keep the videos coming too.
Thank you for watching! -Sara
Great video Steve and Sara! Love this content and the competition you bring to STOL. I get a ton of inspiration from the way you strive to be the best and how you innovate your aircraft, and piloting to continue to be the best. A joy to watch you compete with the others!
Hi Steve and Sara,
With a little more headwind you'll be able to stand it on its tail. Great job winning another one.
Take care,
Be safe.
No matter how many times I watch you fly, it's never less exciting. You rock Steve, so awesome seeing you again and I can't wait til the next one! (Also, next time YOU take the controls in the Cub:)
Sara - Really nice shooting, and stellar post…tasty supers, too.
Thank you! Jeremiah made us good food every day 😋 -Sara
Steve, you are the Pope of STOL... I wish you will win all the competitions this year! Best of luck!
Thanks 😊
Great way to wrap up my work day.
Great job all around to Team Henry
Glad you liked it. Thanks for watching -Sara
Congrats to you and your team on your wins Steve. You and your team put in tons of work, and it paid off.
Thanks Bart, yes we do work really really hard to make it look easy!
Great video, low key, low pressure, familiar, fun.
A-FREAKING-MAZING !!
It was just an awesome event and it was cool to meet all of you. We are so glad we made the trip out for this competition. Eric the owner at Somerton airport is such a great guy and appreciated him taking care of us while we were there
Thank you for being there and saying hello to us! I agree with you that Eric is a super good guy!
Awesome Sauce Team Wild West Aircraft!!! Really Great Video Post!!! Yee Haa, Hang On, and prepare too be amazed!!!
Thank you everything. Very nice.😊👏
congratulations Steve! another great video, thanks Sara :-)
Awesome video. Can't believe Colin took you flying in the cub and still hasn't taken me lol. Looking forward to seeing you again at MaydaySTOL 22.
Wow, go zHenry go. Amazing
WOW if you watch the stick in the cockpit view he has it pushed FORWARD for most of the clip. Insane. This thing nearly takes off by itself.
Very impressive! Love the flying videos.
Amazing flying ! Keep it up !!!
Thank you
Well done Steve and Sara!
That lil bit of wind was just what you needed 😁👍✌👊
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Congrats for the record. I enjoyed this video.
Congratulations Steve next time I want see a VTOL you almost there 😄👍
Steve, you’re a natural on camera! And congrats on another first place.
Those 6’ (helicopter) takeoffs are amazing.👍🏽
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THAT IS AMAZING Ive flown in a Harrier and it couldnt beat that!!!
That had to be fun!!
Nice work Sara! Great video & made it feel like I was there! Steve is an inspirational pilot 😊👍🏼
Thank you! 😊 -Sara
Hello from Minnesota!! Your quality keeps getting better and better!! Keep it up!
Thank you! -Sara
I see you one wheel crew!!! 🔥🔥🔥🤙
Nice 👍 and that wind was nice too 😁
Excellent stuff bro
Sure you don't want a steam catapult to help you with those short deck take-offs? 🤣 Nice competition, Steve! PS: Sara's darn cute!
I think you'd have to mount it vertically to help at this point.. lol
The goat! 🐐
That is absolutely insane.
Dang! Its like a Harrier with a prop lol!
I have been trying to get a developer to Create a Highander like Steve's for Microsoft Flight Simulator for our eSTOL Competitions. We just partnered with National STOL to bring the first ever Competition eSTOL Season to the simulator in the biggest way possible, and hopefully bridge the gap between the flight sim and real-world aviation even more. We hold STOL Competitions Monthly in the same format as National STOL, but with a little less fuel needed, at courses in the sim that are modeled just like the real life ones at the same airports and locations! Anyone and everyone is welcome to spectate or compete with us in sim!
Can't beat that for effectiveness.
Fantastic flying Steve!
Thanks 😊
Reminds me of Good Ole' Days' of RC formula fun flying. 10 touch and goes in the shortest time with turns, shortest time from takeoff for 3 loops, and 3 rolls and touchdown. I like to see that in 1:1 scale.
Incredible!!!
thats incredible!
Best Light weight Aircraft ever I have seen, wish you All the best. If I may have an opportunity to join in your team for profession and improvements, I will be happy.
... You won TWO competitions in a row..? Awesome!
Stunning....🛫🤓
Big Head Winds Really Make it look Easy LOL 😆
Greetings Steve Henry,
Congratulations, your plane is wonderful.
Please help the little RC Pilots, provide us with the front, side and top views of the SuperStol so that we can experience the pleasure of piloting your beautiful machine.
Good landings.
That aircraft must have the stall characteristics of a tow glider!
I live in phoenix and have never seen anything about these events. Terrible marketing! I'd definitely be interested in going to see this type of stuff.
WOW just WOW!
A little bit of headwind goes a long way!!
That's shorter than some of my foam rc STOL planes. I like that giant prop too
The prop is about 82 inches. NRProp
Yes!!!….. more bloopers Sara! 😂
😂 I sure don’t have to try hard to make bloopers! They come very naturally for me on camera!
Wow what a monster💪
This is so cool.
Wild!
Great. Last time I was on the hill with my paraglider I took off vertically. And then landed vertically. If the wind speed is close to your lift speed, of course you can get off quickly.
Holy smokes brother, what's next for you and yee haw VTOL???🤣😂
The ground wind speed is faster than the stall of the plane. Would like to see what it is in still wind conditions. It would still be incredible and fun to see.
Steve will always be the STOLMASTER WTG
I’m sure there are quite a few of us that are very capable pilots, I think my Highlander is one of the best airplanes for doing this.
Looks like "Trevor Jacob " 5th person from the left to right #5. Just an observation. Great flying in those conditions.
Wow, wow🙆♂️🙆♂️🙆♂️👏👏
I could never imagine a propeller plane taking off so fast.
Good to know when my mother in law is after me😥😂
F35: Billions of dollars for research and developing vertical take off.
This guy with old plane : hold my beer
The head wind obviously has alot to do with it taking off so quickly but that motor sounds incredible very high rpm's. Nice skills.
This must beat the Frank Knapp and even the Dan Reynolds world record!!!
Great job 👏, Side note 📝
The green stripe really lets fans see the performance 🎭
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One full revolution of the tire is 8 feet traveled.
@@SteveHenry I WAS the one ☝️ that you put the stripe on. For you my friend, I sent email to your…. Instead of line put your logo or get a sponsor (cause that’s where everyone is looking at, make it readable.) If near by or need rest spot 1TE8
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Saw you guys at Copperstate, it was insane!
Thanks for coming out and seeing us!
Rất tinh tế và nghệ thuật, điều khiển rất điêu luyện, cảm ơn video chia sẻ hay lắm chúc bạn sức khỏe.
What a stud!
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Interesting, I really wonder who generates more 'lift' in this case, the wing or the engine? lol. A quick glance at national stol website, it seems like 'experimental' aircrafts are also allowed. So is it possible to use some exotic designs like channel wing, which in theory can even do VTOL?
Steve, git you a stiff wind, and take off backwards. 🤣🤣🤣
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If you haven’t wathed this Rock Star ride this Airplane off a mountain without power; your failing yourself!
Love Your work Cowboy!
Well Your Daughter’s Video work and your flying and building.
Ok So it’s your work too, ha!
nice
Steve, are you ever going to do another video flying your “Dead Stick” take off? I know it would be difficult to find a mountain close enough to a town to get a crowd but to me that was very thrilling. It’s been a few years ago but you flew me from Nampa (our hanger) to behind Emmet . My first time waterskiing.
I just have not been able to find another suitable hill to do a dead stick takeoff again.
By the way to make this possible it looks like you all had 40kts wind. Also I noticed Mike patey on another video he did something interesting but wasn't designed on his bush plane, he lowered his front shocks and tried to rebound or let the front struts to spring up the plane. So if his able to build such a device that will give the plane 50% lift off capability
Soon Steve will have to start taking off in reverse in order to beat his own records
So at how many knots will that yellow work of art stay airborne at say 50ft alt
Who needs tilt-rotors when you can have a bush plane and a headwind?
If those takeoffs get any shorter, you won't be able to land that thing. 😊
Great job, Steve.
Another 5 knots of headwind and you could take off going backwards.
Once you're flying behind the curve, yeah, a good puff of wind, and you ground track in reverse. Freaks out people on the ground.
If anyone hasn't seen it, find his video of his dirt 6 foot take off watch it, his highlander drags itself off the dirt while he's on the brakes.
That was actually my 2 1/2 foot takeoff with my brakes on. 😊
@@SteveHenry that video and your dead stick take off and landing are what made me fall in love with the Highlander. I really want one now lol
I would like to checkout the take off performance in its POH
super light weight tail dragging with that kind of power, you'd think a ZERO foot take off would be possible.
That thing wants to be in the air. Looks like a bunny hop.
DONT FORGET SARA THE VIDEO MASTER
A good enough gust and you can make it zero. In fact you can lift off going backwards in a good Chinook gust in Boulder, CO - if your plane doesn't flip the moment you untie it.
Thanks to a solid breeze. Awesome Steve!
Took away your nose drag fin? And is the prop wash really moving your flap panels at 6:50?
The fin under the nose is just for Stoldrag. Yes when you see the flaps go up just a little bit when I get on the throttle that is because of the prop blast.
@@SteveHenry Thanks. I forgot you are just STOLing here 😅 Did you ever think about canards on a future Yeeehaw X? Peterson did pretty good results with that and you seem to push frontiers of this sport. How is competition with Jon so far?
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basically an helicopter at this point
Got helium in those tires?
3:06 Fi 156 Original, rebuild or licenced Aircraft ?
Looks like a strong headwind . Is that factored in ? My house can take off faster if there's enough wind
Hey how do I find more airplane and stop events in Arizona?
So basically, we can just stop doing STOL competitions now. What's next? Measure in inches?
Would love one for the airstrip I have, it is timing in today's economy and $$$. Could send you a couple of pics I what I have here. I am sure it would get in and out no problem, just take a little practice.
Great pilot and great plane but I have to ask what was the winds speed?
There’s several places throughout the video that you can see the windsock, and it’s never straight out. It’s easy to see it at the first of the video where I’m taking off and landing short. When I was flying there was definitely less than 15 mph of wind.